This book was basically about how to do simple things like buttons and painting. Though near the end the book does delve into good things like fiel manipulation. I'm ordering Volume II because that looks more promising. Mainly a referance book!

Nothing compares to having fun with Hypercard and it was Danny Goodmans book that opened this world to me. It begins slowly and still takes you up to the top at the end. I cannot use pascal or C but I still felt like a programmer at the end, spending many hours every day making Hypercard scripts. All this thanks to Mr Goodman.

I used this book as a student in my psychotherapy course. I never knew there were so many psychotherapeutic approaches. I was amazed. I enjoyed exploring all these schools analyzed so beautifully in this book. I finally got the chance to see what school of psychotherapy was closer to my needs. I recommend it to all those who have a blurry idea of psychotherapy, like I did.

I believe "current psychotherapies" is a very insightful, informative, and at times profound in it's depth of perspective.

Having previously read "Netware Professional Reference" by Karanjit Siyan, I hoped this edition would follow in the same light. This book is a real help for network administrators as it gives good examples and solutions of day to day problems.

This book is designed as a reference not a study guide.This is one of the best Intranetware books I have read to date.

I have all of my "favorite places" marked for quick reference. The book is not organized to study for CNE exams. However, it has the information for Intranetware Network Administrators need for managing their networks. It contains a great index for quick look-ups.

I mostly agreed with Eric Ma. There are some areas that Wrox needs to review the whole process of publishing Java-related books. Here are some drawbacks that I can draw from reading recent Java-related books:

(1) Repeated Contents: Materials about Servlet, JSP, EJB, JNDI, JDBC, XML, etc are repeated over and over many books. This could waste time, money, and papers for both Wrox and readers.

(2)Books or Articles?: I asked myself: is Wrox publishing books or articles? Each book is written by many authors and the book's flow is inconsistent. The assessment that it is not a book but a collection of articles may partially true. It is true that a book if written by a team of authors could speed up the process of releasing it, but if Wrox editors and coordinators have to do their better jobs.

I suggest that Wrox should review its strategy of publishing books to avoid the repeating of materials over and over and thus bring down the cost associated with publishing the books. The final result is: readers and publisher will both save time and money. Otherwise, readers will loose their belief with Wrox.

For the past 2 years Wrox has been publishing books dedicated to Windows-based data access (ADO etc.), but the same cannot be said about their Java/database collection. Although you find chapters on JDBC scattered all-over almost all server-side Java related books by Wrox, there was no single volume from them that teaches JDBC first, and then show how it is used by the newer dependent technologies, until this book arrived. After looking through this book, I must say the authors and editors have done a rather commendable job.

Why do I make the above conclusion? Let me give you my general impression of the book first. A theme repeated in several of my recent reviews on books from Wrox is about the problem in coherence associated with multi-author books. Well, having more than a dozen of authors for a single book seems to be a fact of life (for books from Wrox at least) now, as the publication cycle gets shorter. I was rather surprised to find out that the organization and coherence is very good in this book, i.e., there is very little overlap among chapters. Also, this books uses JDBC cleverly to tie other pieces of J2EE together, making smooth transitions from one chapter to another. If you want to know, this factor alone prompted me to add an extra star to the overall rating of the book.

Let's now run down the chapters of this book quickly. The first 115 pages deals object-oriented and database modeling, and can be skipped by any "Professional" developer. Then after your obligatory intro to JDBC API, the next chapter covers the JDBC 2.0 optional package. This is the best treatment of this topic I have seen. Then another chapter is all about SQLJ, another first. The effort of having a chapter on database performance should be lauded, where connection pooling, prepared statements and stored procedures usage are demoed. The reminder of the book is about applying JDBC in various J2EE components, such as JSP, servlets, EJB, JMS, and XML. For this part of the book, even though I accept the fact the proper stage has to be set for each one of them, I still don't believe the book found the right balance between focusing on JDBC and showing what these other technologies are about. A large number of pages are used to teach basic JNDI, servlets, JSP's, and EJB's stuff (remember there is already a book on J2EE from Wrox!). Therefore, it is up to the reader to discover the real nuggets of gold hidden in this pile, which are far and in between in places. I found that some critical issues are not highlighted or details are lacking, such as how to use connection pooling/data sources in servlets, JSP's, and EJB's, the threading issues related to sharing database connections, and good database practices in BMP EJB's. However, the one thing I cannot complain about is that the book did not forget to teach the transaction aspect of EJB with a good depth (there is a short ans sweet chapter on using JTA/JTS inside EJB). There is also a chapter on the brand-new JDO framework, even though the spec is still in a state of flux. Finally, there are 4 case study chapters in the book - although the design and implementation are limited in scope and as a whole those samples do not teach all you need to do know about enterprise scale J2EE system development, they do provide a flavor of how JDBC is used in real world, together with setting up Tomcat, JRun, Orion, and WebLogic to access MS SQL Server and Oracle databases.

Now my overall take of this book. For VB/SQL and pure back-end PL/SQL developers who are eager to jump on the Java express train and need a suitable platform (especially for the ones who learn best from playing with actual code), I recommend this book as one of several you should own. Compared to other JDBC books from say O'Reilly and Sun's JDBC Tutorial, this book is the most up-to-date, contains the most source code, and has the broadest coverage of related topics. But keep in mind some of the advanced topics such as EJB and JMS can be intimidating for new-comers. On the other side of the coin, people who are advanced in various server-side Java technologies are unlikely to benefit a great deal from this book and should look elsewhere for info (for example Wrox's J2EE and upcoming EJB titles).

Obviously written for those in the anthropolgy field, Alcoholic Thinking is also accessible to the average person with an interest in the subject. Written in thesis format, it is well researched and documented. My favorite sections describe AA meetings, the dogma and symbols of the organization. The author's stuggle with his own dependence makes the book compelling reading. Favorite line: You can't keep doing the same things and expect different results.

Velie has put together a fine anthology of all different genres of Native American literature. My one qualm is that in the first edition, published in '79 (I believe), a good many of the "poems" were represented by the work of Frances Densmore: transcribed into western musical notation, along with the original language lyrics, and with a glossary of the native words provided at the bottom of the page. In the revised edition, Densmore's transcriptions are replaced with simple translations presenting the poems as purely literary works. What's lost is the strong sense of these works as songs-- performances, communal play--and the necessity for the reader to get intimately involved in the work by using the glossary to translate the song for him or herself. The new edition's translations also give no clue about the nonsense syllables the singer often slips in between the syllables of a native word--a kind of Indian doo-wop or hey-nonny-nonny.

Have you ever wanted to make a difference in your community but didn't have a clue as to what steps were needed to make a change? Did you feel inadequate because of your age and inexperience? Danny Seo addresses those questions and provides you with a guide on how to make a difference. He should know for at the tender age of twelve, he formed an organization of a few neighborhood kids to help improve the environment. His success was phenomenal.

At the tender age of twenty-two, Danny further spurs people on to learning the basic steps in helping you get started in changing the world. Want to form a group to tackle a problem? Great! The books covers how to form a non-profit organization, getting publicity, funding and outreach. This handbook goes further in encouraging young people to get involved with their local governments to make changes, pursuing internships and working with businesses.

I found this to be not only an inspiring book for youth but was impressed with the information provided for someone to begin the process of making changes. Seo's concept of being of service to the community is a breath of fresh air in a culture of consumerist capitalism. "Be the Difference" gives hope to youth, adults and organizations in working together to provide a better quality of life. Anyone working with youth or in education should have this book in their hands. The possibilities it provides for change are endless.

Anyone who spent anytime around the New Orleans jazz scene knows that Danny Barker was the living voice of the music. Before his death, Danny always peppered his concerts with his spicy, insightful anecdotes (true in meaning if not in every fact). This book brings together some of his stories centered around Buddy Bolden (The "Father" of Jazz) and Storyville. His voice comes through strong and funny, just as he spoke in life. Factually, I am not sure of the accuracy of all these stories, but nothing catches the flavor of early New Orleans jazz like Danny Barker. All of us who had the pleasure to know him miss him, this book reminds us why we loved him so much. He still teaches us.

Cliches abound in this enchanting tale of mathematics used to examine crime. En route to a role playing mystery weekend, the two principles take a wrong turn and become involved in a real-life vendetta. Complete with a "dark and stormy night' backdrop, a Gothic style house with abundant secret passages and a proper English butler named Peeved, the action is sure to enchant adolescents of all ages.
The jokes are mostly puns of the groaner variety, but are sometimes subtle enough to require a second thought. The two leading characters are specialists in using mathematics to solve their cases and they move through several possible scenarios in an attempt to find the pattern to the crimes. The main point, that mathematics is more than just arithmetic, is well made and will spark an interest in the other areas that make up the field of mathematics.
This book belongs in every elementary school library and it will be given to my children to read in a few years.

I have read a few others in this series. This one is probablymy favorite out of the ones I've read. It's pretty intriguing,athough it's been a while since I read it so I kind of forget whathappens! I want to read it again sometime. These books are aChristian adventure series, and worth reading, especially for kids andteens. They sort of remind me of the Hardy Boys. (I'm 17 years old,now, and read the Danny Orlis books from when I was 12-15.)